English Questions : Idioms And Phrases set- 17

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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation in AffairsCloud.com. Here we are providing here some important idioms and phrases, which is BASED ON IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams.

1. To snap one’s fingers
   1) Restless
   2) To give a challenge
   3) To be anxious
   4) An impractical plan
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : To be anxious
   
   
2. A chip off the old block 
   1) To captive tem unexpectedly
   2) To surrender or give up the contest
   3) To keep on talking
   4) Characteristics of one’s ancestors
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : Characteristics of one’s ancestors
   
   
3. To catch somebody on the hop to 
   1) To catch somebody of guard
   2) To reveal secret information
   3) To be afraid
   4) To send away
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation : To catch somebody of guard
   
   
4. To save one’s face 
   1) To indulge in over-refined arguments
   2) A lover of woman company
   3) to evade disgrace
   4) Anything which eludes or deceives
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : to evade disgrace
   
   
5. To get into scrape
   1) To find oneself in an awkward predicament
   2) To lose one’s temper
   3) To initiate work in a movement
   4) To be perplexed
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1) 
   Explanation : To find oneself in an awkward predicament
   
   
6. Hush money 
   1) Bribe paid to secure silence
   2) A task difficult to perform
   3) To take aim at
   4) Everything without distinction
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation : Bribe paid to secure silence
   
   
7. To disabuse one’s mind
   1) To take reckless risks
   2) To suffer humiliation
   3) To remove a misapprehension
   4) To have a slight encounter
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3) 
   Explanation : To remove a misapprehension
   
   
8. To pull one’s socks up
   1) To try hard
   2) Narrowly
   3) To be inconsistent
   4) To produce the proof of something
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1) 
   Explanation : To try hard
   
   
9. To beggars’ description
   1) To be furious
   2) To be offended
   3) A secret plan
   4) Beyond one’s power to describe adequately
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : Beyond one’s power to describe adequately
   
   
10. To draw the long bow 
    1) To make and exaggerated statement
    2) Upset one’s plan
    3) To come out successful
    4) To be actively engagedTo carry on a contest regardless of consequences
    
    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : To make and exaggerated statement